Kristina Ohlsson
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| Born | March 2, 1979 Kristianstad, Sweden |
| Nationality | Sweden |
| Genre | Crime Fiction |
Kristina Ohlsson (born March 2, 1979) is a Swedish political scientist and award-winning writer.
She grew up in Kristianstad and then moved to Stockholm, where she studied Political sciences. Ohlsson has worked as a Counter-Terrorism Officer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; she has also worked for the Swedish Security Service, for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and for the Swedish National Defense College. She lives in Stockholm.[1][2]
Besides her adult fiction, which includes a series featuring investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman, Ohlsson has also written a popular trilogy of children's suspense novels. In 2010, she was awarded the Stabilo Prize for Best Crime Writer of Southern Sweden.[2] In 2013, she received the Children's Novel Award from Sveriges Radio. In 2017, she was awarded the Crimetime Specsavers Award for children's crime fiction.[3]
Ohlsson's first novel Unwanted was adapted for Swedish TV as Sthlm Rekviem (Stockholm Requiem on Walter Presents in the UK).
- Askungar, crime novel (2009), translated as Unwanted (2012)
- Tusenskönor, crime novel (2010), translated as Silenced (2012), shortlist for Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Crime Novel of the Year
- Änglavakter, crime novel (2011), translated as The Disappeared (2013), shortlist for Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Crime Novel
- Paradisoffer, crime novel (2012), translated as Hostage
- Davidsstjärnor, crime novel (2013), translated as The Chosen
- Lotus BLues, crime novel (2014)
- Mios BLues, crime novel (2015)
- Syndafloder, crime novel (2017), translated as The Flood[3]
References
- ^ a b "The Fredrika Bergman Series". Simon & Schuster Canada.
- ^ a b c Brunsdale, Mitzi M (2016). Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. pp. 490–91. ISBN 0786475366.
- ^ a b "Kristina Ohlsson". Salomonsson Agency.
